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The Normative Underpinnings Of Taxation, Sagit Leviner Dr. Dec 2012

The Normative Underpinnings Of Taxation, Sagit Leviner Dr.

Sagit Leviner Dr.

Questions about the appropriate rules and mechanisms of taxation are, first and foremost, questions concerning the nature of society. What can be taxed, what cannot, for what purpose, when, and how, are all matters that go to the heart of society and, in particular, concern society’s underlying beliefs and values vis-à-vis the meaning and attainment of justice. This Article explores the role of normative values and theory in tax policymaking. It suggests that a candid elaboration of normative perspectives, and how they shed light on taxation, could lead to a better understanding of society as well as a better tax …


Dossier Chris Marker: The Suffering Image, Gavin W. Keeney Dec 2012

Dossier Chris Marker: The Suffering Image, Gavin W. Keeney

Gavin W Keeney

Dossier Chris Marker is a study of a late-modern chiasmus, impersonal-personal agency, as it comes to expression in the works of French artist and filmmaker Chris Marker as the dynamic interplay of political and subjective agency. As chiasmus, the complementary halves of this often-apocalyptic dynamis (a semi-catastrophic, temporal or historical force-field) also – arguably – secretly agree to meet, through the work of art, in the futural. Consistent with the classical figure of concordia discors, these irreducible warring aspects of life experience are, in fact, resolved in an atemporal and ahistorical moment that inhabits the work of art from its …


“A Singapore Ramayana: Academic Freedom And The Liberal Arts Curriculum”, Rebecca Gould Dec 2012

“A Singapore Ramayana: Academic Freedom And The Liberal Arts Curriculum”, Rebecca Gould

Rebecca Gould

No abstract provided.


Ciudades Malas, Ciudades Falsas, Ciudades Feas, Jaime F. Erazo Espinosa Arq. Dec 2012

Ciudades Malas, Ciudades Falsas, Ciudades Feas, Jaime F. Erazo Espinosa Arq.

Jaime F. Erazo Espinosa

Afuera de este mundo, en otro mundo, donde el orden ideal es bondad, verdad y beldad, existen ciudades que son todas iguales: o tan reservadas que parecen arbitrarias o tan pensadas que aparecen “sin mezclas”. Adentro de este mundo, nuestro mundo, hay un orden conflictivo e infernal que, en nuestras ciudades, parece malo, aparece falso y preside lo feo. En las ciudades de afuera, sus habitantes, o son entendidos o simples pedantes. La gente de adentro es popular y sólo se afecta cuando le pasa, entre sus carencias, el mercado como una flecha, que vulgariza su voluntad. Aislando cada orden …


נבואה והסדר המדיני המושלם: התיאולוגיה המדינית של ליאו שטראוס Prophecy And The Perfect Political Order: The Political Theology Of Leo Strauss, Haim חיים O. Rechnitzer רכניצר Nov 2012

נבואה והסדר המדיני המושלם: התיאולוגיה המדינית של ליאו שטראוס Prophecy And The Perfect Political Order: The Political Theology Of Leo Strauss, Haim חיים O. Rechnitzer רכניצר

Haim O Rechnitzer חיים א. רכניצר

The theological-political problem, the inherent tensions between religion, human intellect and political society are the focus of the book Philosophy and the Perfect Political Order: the Political Theology of Leo Strauss. Strauss, (1899-1973) one of the greatest scholars of political philosophy, never produced an independent philosophy. Instead, his philosophical thought is entwined within commentary on the works of Maimonides, Hobbes, Spinoza, Nietzsche and others. In this book, it is reconstructed through a comprehensive investigation of his works. Strauss placed himself in opposition to his teachers and colleagues Herman Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig, and Martin Buber. He challenged their syntheses of Judaism …


Allowing For Every Contingency, Raam P. Gokhale Nov 2012

Allowing For Every Contingency, Raam P. Gokhale

Raam P Gokhale

A Dialogue on Determinism, Contingency and Free Will


Polis, The Journal For Ancient Greek Political Thought, Kyriakos N. Demetriou Oct 2012

Polis, The Journal For Ancient Greek Political Thought, Kyriakos N. Demetriou

Kyriakos N. Demetriou

A short history of "Polis", this year (2012) celebrating its 35th anniversary. First appeared in 1977.


Origins Shrouded In Myth, Raam P. Gokhale Oct 2012

Origins Shrouded In Myth, Raam P. Gokhale

Raam P Gokhale

A Dialogue Exploring the Philosophical Roles of Myths


The Tortoise And The Hare: A New Moral For An Old Fable, Jaret Kanarek Oct 2012

The Tortoise And The Hare: A New Moral For An Old Fable, Jaret Kanarek

The Intellectual Standard

No abstract provided.


Faulty Phrases: “There Are No Absolutes” & “The Truth Is Relative”, Jaret Kanarek Oct 2012

Faulty Phrases: “There Are No Absolutes” & “The Truth Is Relative”, Jaret Kanarek

The Intellectual Standard

No abstract provided.


The Scorpion And The Frog: A False Narrative Of Human Nature, Karen Silverman, Jaret Kanarek Oct 2012

The Scorpion And The Frog: A False Narrative Of Human Nature, Karen Silverman, Jaret Kanarek

The Intellectual Standard

No abstract provided.


Faulty Phrases: “There Is No Such Thing As Perfection”, Michael Christison Oct 2012

Faulty Phrases: “There Is No Such Thing As Perfection”, Michael Christison

The Intellectual Standard

No abstract provided.


Gandhi: Corruption And Present Age, Vivek Kumar Srivastava Dr. Oct 2012

Gandhi: Corruption And Present Age, Vivek Kumar Srivastava Dr.

Vivek Kumar Srivastava Dr.

Gandhi ji established certain values about the human conduct. this paper explores his relevance in the present age.


Ethical And Privacy Impact Assessment In The Big Data Era: An Oxymoron ?, Antoinette Rouvroy Sep 2012

Ethical And Privacy Impact Assessment In The Big Data Era: An Oxymoron ?, Antoinette Rouvroy

Antoinette Rouvroy

No abstract provided.


Democracy In Transition Flyer (Springer), Kyriakos N. Demetriou Sep 2012

Democracy In Transition Flyer (Springer), Kyriakos N. Demetriou

Kyriakos N. Demetriou

Democracy in Transition is an edited volume that aims to investiage and analyse from different perpsectives political apathy and declining political participation in Europe.


Beyond Empiricism: Realizing The Ethical Mission Of Management, Julian Friedland Sep 2012

Beyond Empiricism: Realizing The Ethical Mission Of Management, Julian Friedland

Julian Friedland

Research into the proper mission of business falls within the context of theoretical and applied ethics. And ethics is fast becoming a part of required business school curricula. However, while business ethics research occasionally appears in high-profile venues, it does not yet enjoy a regular place within any top management journal. I offer a partial explanation of this paradox and suggestions for resolving it. I begin by discussing the standard conception of human nature given by neoclassical economics as disseminated in business schools; showing it is a significant obstacle to an accurate conception of ethics and how this limits consideration …


The Sdd (Solipsistic Divine Dream) Theory, Kedar Joshi Sep 2012

The Sdd (Solipsistic Divine Dream) Theory, Kedar Joshi

Kedar Joshi

I am not Kedar Joshi; I am God; I am asleep; Kedar Joshi, and Kedar Joshi alone, is my dream.
Image: Albert Lynch [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons


Welk Recht Op Gezondheid? Over Moeilijke Keuzen In De Gezondheidszorg, Jurgen De Wispelaere, Kristof Uvijn Sep 2012

Welk Recht Op Gezondheid? Over Moeilijke Keuzen In De Gezondheidszorg, Jurgen De Wispelaere, Kristof Uvijn

Jurgen De Wispelaere

No abstract provided.


Ideologies: The Prisons Of Modern People, Ferit Uslu Aug 2012

Ideologies: The Prisons Of Modern People, Ferit Uslu

Ferit Uslu

We can examine and assess ideologies in different ways: Sociological, physiological and historical ways are among those. But here, I will analyze and assess ideologies according to their epistemological structure and try to give reasons of why they are prisons of human mind and modern people.


Prison Through A Philosophic Prism, Raam P. Gokhale Aug 2012

Prison Through A Philosophic Prism, Raam P. Gokhale

Raam P Gokhale

A Dialogue Between Prisoners Past, Present and Future


Prisons Before Modernity: Incarceration In The Medieval Indo-Mediterranean, Rebecca Gould Aug 2012

Prisons Before Modernity: Incarceration In The Medieval Indo-Mediterranean, Rebecca Gould

Rebecca Gould

No abstract provided.


My Best Movies, Kyriakos N. Demetriou Aug 2012

My Best Movies, Kyriakos N. Demetriou

Kyriakos N. Demetriou

Please find a list of my best movies -- I am going to keep it updated, of course!


On The Political Feasibility Of Universal Basic Income, Jurgen De Wispelaere, Jose A. Noguera Aug 2012

On The Political Feasibility Of Universal Basic Income, Jurgen De Wispelaere, Jose A. Noguera

Jurgen De Wispelaere

For much of the last two decades, debate around the proposal of a universal basic income (BI) centered on arguing the ethical and economic case for instituting a policy that grants each adult citizen a guaranteed income as a right, without a means test or work requirement. The question of how to bring about such a policy—the question of political feasibility—has only recently gained traction amongst BI advocates. Leaving aside some notable exceptions, much work remains to be done to further our understanding of the challenges faced by BI advocates and the strategies available to overcome these. In this chapter, …


Forced Displacement In Colombia, Fernando Estrada Jul 2012

Forced Displacement In Colombia, Fernando Estrada

Fernando Estrada

No abstract provided.


Review Of Studies In The Reception Of Plato (Ashgate, 2011), Kyriakos N. Demetriou Jun 2012

Review Of Studies In The Reception Of Plato (Ashgate, 2011), Kyriakos N. Demetriou

Kyriakos N. Demetriou

Book review in the International Journal of the Platonic Tradition 6 (2012) 247-9, by Jay Bregman


Vaccination : Who's Right And Whose Right To Say So?, Stephen S. Holden Jun 2012

Vaccination : Who's Right And Whose Right To Say So?, Stephen S. Holden

Stephen S Holden

Are social marketers really ethical? This essay extends Brenkert’s (2001, 2002) exploration of some of the ethical issues that confront, or perhaps ought to confront social marketers. It contributes to social marketing by adding to the list of ‘mythunderstandings’ offered by Donovan (2011) as follows: social marketing is not inherently and ethically good (even though “social good” is the objective). The implication for social marketing is that the notion of “doing good” needs to be subject to reasonable doubt and critical thinking rather than supported by untrammelled belief.


Allegory And The Critique Of Sovereignty: Ismail Kadare’S Political Theologies, Rebecca Gould Jun 2012

Allegory And The Critique Of Sovereignty: Ismail Kadare’S Political Theologies, Rebecca Gould

Rebecca Gould

No abstract provided.


Sovereignty And The Death Of Communism, Jolan Bogdan Jun 2012

Sovereignty And The Death Of Communism, Jolan Bogdan

Jolan Bogdan

When Nicolae Ceauşescu delivered his final speech to the crowd gathered below Bucharest'sCentral Committee headquarters, he extended his “revolutionary” greetings. Harun Farocki's documentary, Videograms of a Revolution, captures the moment when the crowd turned, and booed his words, instead of the cheers that the sovereign had become accustomed to over his 25 year tenure as Romania's dictator. When the jeering began, the cameras faltered, momentarily tilted up towards the sky from their previously fixed position on the figure on the balcony, before cutting out all together. Static aired for a few seconds, before the cameras once again began filming, but …


Plan De Tesis: La Representación De La Niñez Y Adolescencia En Los Medios Escritos, Andres Sefla Jun 2012

Plan De Tesis: La Representación De La Niñez Y Adolescencia En Los Medios Escritos, Andres Sefla

ANDRES SEFLA

Los medios de comunicación tradicionalmente se han constituido como mediadores de la sociedad, interponiéndose, a manera de filtro, entre la sociedad y los hechos políticos, económicos, culturales y sociales que interesadamente son susceptibles de ser informados. Por ello, se dice que los medios son reproductores de la sociedad, puesto que a través de las narrativas producen sentidos sobre el mundo, es decir, éstos generan imágenes o cosmovisiones sobre el ámbito de referencia al cual se lancen para transmitir o publicar en sus emisiones o páginas informativas. En este sentido, la información es un hecho comunicativo inherente a la cultura mediática …


Licensing Parents To Protect Our Children?, Jurgen De Wispelaere, Daniel Weinstock Jun 2012

Licensing Parents To Protect Our Children?, Jurgen De Wispelaere, Daniel Weinstock

Jurgen De Wispelaere

In this paper we re-examine Hugh LaFollette’s proposal that the state carefully determine the eligibility and suitability of prospective parents before granting them a ‘license to parent’. Assuming a prima facie case for licensing parents grounded in our duty to promote the welfare of the child, we offer several considerations that complicate LaFollette’s radical proposal. We suggest that LaFollette can only escape these problems by revising his proposal in a way that renders the license effectively obsolete, a route he implicitly adopts in his recent revisiting of the licensing proposal. We conclude that there is little merit in the idea …